Tuesday, August 27, 2013
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Wealth inequality
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/opinion/sutter-inequality-must-reads/index.html
---SPSmith
Monday, August 19, 2013
10 Things You Didn't Know About Oktoberfest...Zinzinnati That Is
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013
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Wednesday, August 07, 2013
Homeowner Legal Options Against HOA | The Bainbridge Law Firm, L.L.C. | Scottsdale Arizona
Arizona law places certain restrictions on HOAs, regardless of the powers given to the HOA in the community documents. Below is a list of some common restrictions on HOA power. If the following principles are not followed, an HOA decision could be invalidated.
- Board members must act as fiduciaries to the association, meaning all board members must put the interests of the community ahead of their own personal interests when acting on behalf of the HOA.
- If any HOA action could financially benefit a board member or that board member's immediate family, the board member must state this conflict at an open meeting before voting on the issue.
- HOAs must act reasonably and treat members fairly. An HOA may not carry out its duties in a manner that is arbitrary, capricious, or unreasonable. In other words, community rules must be reasonably enforced.
- HOAs may not selectively enforce community rules against particular homeowners. HOA rules must be enforced as equally as possible.
---SPSmith
Former President George W. Bush recovering after heart surgery | wfaa.com Dallas - Fort Worth
"He had a stress test as part of his annual physical. During the
stress test there were EKG changes, which prompted a CT angiogram that
confirmed the blockage."
---SPSmith
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Sunday, August 04, 2013
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Friday, July 26, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Slate: Lennon + McCartney = Nilsson
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doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2013.05.030
Despite public perception to the contrary,12,46,47 when all types of injuries are considered together, rural areas, not urban, bear a disproportionate amount of injury-related mortality risk in the United States
---SPSmith
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Eye on Psych: The Myth of Catharsis: Why Ranting and Venting are Terrible Ways to Handle Anger
However, decades of research have shown that venting, far from
releasing anger, actually makes it worse
---SPSmith
Saturday, July 20, 2013
20 Great Insults from Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
disposition of a grizzly bear with hemorrhoids trying to pass pinecones
---SPSmith
Thursday, July 18, 2013
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Rationally Speaking: Democracy: the Egyptian conundrum
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
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Thursday, July 04, 2013
Victor J. Willi: Letter From Cairo
Wednesday, July 03, 2013
Rationally Speaking: Theories of truth
---SPSmith
Tuesday, July 02, 2013
Paula Deen's Ugly Roots : The New Yorker
The controversy stems from a suit brought by a former employee, who claims, among other things, that Deen presided over a culture of racial and sexual impropriety, particularly at Uncle Bubba's Oyster House, the Savannah restaurant Deen set up for her brother, Bubba Hiers: pornography in the workplace, racial insults, nostalgia for the antebellum South. (In planning Bubba's wedding, the employee asserts in the complaint, Deen allegedly said, "I want a true southern plantation-style wedding.… Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n-----s to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around.") In other words, we now have "Kitchen Confidential: Georgia Edition," with an inverted power structure and markedly un-Vassar politics.
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Monday, July 01, 2013
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Read The Full Transcript Of Paula Deen’s Controversial Racial Comments | TPMDC
Jackson's complaint also accuses Deen of racism and enabling Hiers' behavior. According to the complaint, Deen and other managers at her companies ignored Jackson's attempts to discuss Hiers' behavior. As evidence that Deen "holds such racist views herself," the complaint details an incident that occurred when Jackson was in charge of "food and serving arrangements" at Hier's wedding in 2007. The complaint includes a comment Deen allegedly made when asked by Jackson what type of uniforms the servers should wear at the wedding.
"Well what I would really like is a bunch of little niggers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around," the lawsuit claims Deen said. "Now that would be a true southern wedding, wouldn't it? But we can't do that because the media would be on me about that."
---SPSmith
N.Y. man's death leads police to arsenal
N.Y. man's death leads police to arsenal
http://usat.ly/12svlx9
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
In Defense of Paula Deen: How a Righteous Call for Blood Turned into Good Old Bullying | Observer
By the end of this week, when the racist glimmer dust has settled and
the fat has coagulated, Paula Deen will be a ruined woman. She'll be
the Hester Prynne of fried food, the Tess d'Urbervilles of
cholesterol. She's already been forsaken by Target, Novo Nordisk,
Walmart, Caesar's Palace and millions of non-racist fans. She wept on
Today and couldn't even get her subject and verbs to agree. "I is what
I is," she said tearfully, channeling both George Gershwin and Popeye.
---SPSmith
Bad Day for Bigots III | Futile Democracy
Rednecks marrying their trucks!
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PS4 and Xbox One high volumes no problem for AMD | GamesIndustry International
AMD owns the next-generation of consoles
---SPSmith
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
"Supreme Court Overrules God" And Other Right-Wing Media Reactions To The Marriage Equality Victory | Research | Media Matters for America
Your god ain't much if the Supreme Court can defeat him. Perhaps try
Odin next time...
---SPSmith
Immigration reform
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Texas filibuster
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/26/politics/texas-abortion-bill/index.html
---SPSmith
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Monday, June 24, 2013
Reel Life Wisdom - The Ten Smartest Movie Quotes of 2008 | Reel Life Wisdom
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May I see your papers please? I'm sorry your papers are NOT in order.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_NSA_SURVEILLANCE_HONG_KONG?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-06-23-07-04-11
---SPSmith
Sunday, June 23, 2013
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Friday, June 21, 2013
Acupuncture Doesn’t Work « Science-Based Medicine
the benefits of acupuncture are likely nonexistent, or at best are too
small and too transient to be of any clinical significance. It seems
that acupuncture is little or no more than a theatrical placebo
---SPSmith
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Rotten America – Big Prison, Arrest Quotas, and What Education Really Pays For | Skeptikai
In a research paper published in 2003, Lance Lochner from the University of Western Ontario and Enrico Morette from University of California at Los Angeles wrote this:
The impact of education on crime implies that there are benefits to education not taken into account by individuals themselves, so the social return to schooling is larger than the private return. The estimated social externalities from reduced crime are sizeable. A 1% increase in the high school completion rate of all men ages 20-60 would save the United States as much as $1.4 billion per year in reduced costs from crime incurred by victims and society at large. Such externalities from education amount to $1,170-2,100 per additional high school graduate or 14-26% of the private return to schooling. It is difficult to imagine a better reason to develop policies that prevent high school drop out.
---SPSmith
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
Snowden hits back against critics of NSA leaks | Reuters
Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can
give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like
him ... the better off we all are.
---SPSmith
Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
As Supreme Court Justice Breyer elaborates:
---SPSmithThe complexity of modern federal criminal law, codified in several thousand sections of the United States Code and the virtually infinite variety of factual circumstances that might trigger an investigation into a possible violation of the law, make it difficult for anyone to know, in advance, just when a particular set of statements might later appear (to a prosecutor) to be relevant to some such investigation.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
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Rock Springs Cafe dates back to 1918
http://www.azcentral.com/business/consumer/articles/20130612popular-rock-springs-cafe-dates-back.html
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Thursday, June 13, 2013
9 Questions Not To Ask Atheists — With Answers » Greta Christina's Blog
1: "How can you be moral without believing in God?"
The answer: Atheists are moral for the same reasons believers are moral: because we have compassion, and a sense of justice. Humans are social animals, and like other social animals, we evolved with some core moral values wired into our brains: caring about fairness, caring about loyalty, caring when others are harmed.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Thought you'd like this azcentral article
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Phoenix man faces terrible choice: family or country
http://www.azcentral.com/insiders/?p=63687
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
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Smart Technology World 2013 | May 30-31, 2013 | Menlo Park, CA
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